GRAVE CRISIS IN RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 135, 25 February 1918, Page 5

GRAVE CRISIS IN RUSSIA

STARTLING ADVANCE BY THE GERMANS

PEACE OR PETROGRAD?

RUSSIAN BALTIC FLEET IN DANGER OF CAPTURE

BRITISH IN JERICHO

ALLENBY'S FLANKS SECURE

The German advance in Northern Russia has suddenly assumed an aspect of great gravity. The Bolshevik Government has apparently lost its grasp of the situation. The Army had already been partly demoralised, and the remainder has degenerated into an undisciplined rabble which is offering no resistance to the German ad- ' vance. The Russian Baltic fleet, also affected by the general col-

lapse, is in serious danger of being captured en bloc by the enemy, and as the ships include a flotilla of over sixty destroyers, its capture, it is considered, would be of important advantago to the Germans. A noticeable aspect of the German advance is the evident inclination of the inhabitants of the invaded districts to regard tho enemy as a species of deliverer from the Red Terror of Bolshevikism, Even in Petrograd the hope is expressed that the Germans will come before the anarchy breaks loose. There is no news from Southern Russia. In the West no material developments have taken; place. There is a brief line (unofficial) to the effect that a heavy artillery bombardment is at present in progress along the entire French front in the West.